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Category Archives: PODCAzT
PODCAzT 81: Benedict XVI’s Letter on SSPX excomms; your voicemail
A fast PODCAzT this time. I am so grateful to the folks who sent the new microphone and the boom. They really help. In this session I read Pope Benedict’s Letter to Bishops on the lifting of the excommunications of … Read More
PODCAzT 80: Gaudium et spes 9-10; don Camillo (Part V); SSPXer voicemail
On this Saturday in the 1st Week of Lent, we have a reading from Gaudium et spes, the “Pastoral” Constitution on the Church in the Modern World from the Second Vatican Council. GS 9-10 is the second reading in the … Read More
PODCAzT 79: Augustine on your solidarity with Christ; your voicemail
This PODCAzT, the first in a while, is a bit of a blast from the past. I am going back, on this 1st Sunday of Lent, to the topic of the very first PODCAzT I made. It seems appropriate. I … Read More
Posted in Classic Posts, Linking Back, Patristiblogging, PODCAzT
Tagged Augustine, Parts of Rhetoric, podcast, PODCAzT, Time Travel
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12 Comments
Way of the Cross by St. Alphonsus Liguori (voice and with chant)
For your Lenten spiritual warfare, here are two version of the Via Crucis, the Way or Stations of the Cross, by St. Alphonsus Liguori. If people a truly impeded from going to a church, chapel or place where the Stations … Read More
PODCAzT 78: A Vespers hymn dissected “O Lux Beata Trinitas”; Fr. Z on the SSPX
It has been a while since I did a PODCAzT, but I figured it was time to plunge back in. Today we will drill into a hymn sung by Holy Church in the Liturgia horarum for Sunday Vespers every other … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, PODCAzT, WDTPRS
Tagged Liber Hymnarius, O Lux Beata Trinitas, podcast, PODCAzT
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15 Comments
PODCAzT 77: An Advent hymn dissected “Vox clara”, with digressions
I decided during Advent to drill into the hymns in the Liturgia Horarum. We continue our drilling with the hymn for the Office of Lauds or "Morning Prayer" in the post-Conciliar Liturgia Horarum called Vox clara ecce intonat, with … Read More
PODCAzT 76: An Advent hymn dissected “Verbum supernum prodiens”, with digressions
I decided during Advent to drill into the hymns in the Liturgia Horarum. We continue our drilling with the hymn for the Office of Readings in the post-Conciliar Liturgia Horarum called Verbum supernum prodiens, with its unhappier variation from the … Read More
PODCAzT 75: An Advent hymn dissected “Conditor alme siderum”; Fr. Z digresses far afield
I decided during Advent to drill into the hymns in the Liturgia Horarum. We begin today with the hymn for Vespers called Conditor alme siderum, with its variation Creator alme siderum as it was in Breviarium Romanum. I dissect this … Read More
PODCAzT 74: A hymn to Christ the King dissected – before and after Vatican II; a proclamation; “Seize the Day” in Scots
A change of pace today, between the last Sunday of the liturgical year and the first Sunday of Advent! I dissect a hymn in the Liturgy of the Hours for the Solemnity of Christ the King in the newer, post-Conciliar … Read More
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